PLAYFIELD RESTORE;

The playfield was completely stripped and the old mylar removed by heating first with a fan heater. The mylar glue was removed with “Prepsol” wax& grease remover, a plastic scraper and rags. Only minor paint touch-up’s were needed and paint lift from the mylar removal was minimal. The purple around the left bumper had the most wear, from those non adhesive clear ring crap things that Gtb loved to put under the bumper assemblies at that time (dirt traps I call them!) and the purple under the top left drop target lifted in spots as the Mylar was removed. After the touch-ups were done, using waterbased acrylics as documented in Clays repair guides it was re covered with a new sheet of Mylar purchased from Bumper Action.

Before any parts/posts were screwed on I cut out and removed the mylar from anywhere anything was to be screwed down, otherwise the mylar bubbles and lifts in these areas. It was then reassembled.

New rubbers, globes and 3” flipper bats from Bumper Action were fitted. Coin door and apron decals were bought from Pinball Rescue in Queensland. The coin door was raided from the same Countdown game the cabinet came from, as it was in better condition than the original. All the metalwork was polished with Auto-Sol. The legs, coin door reject button and shooter housing have been rechromed.  New coin door and back box cover locks were fitted (The back box cover had to be made as the original was missing, I ended up just making it out of plywood for simplicity).
Most of the electrics had been repaired prior to stripping the game, however minor tweaking and adjusting was necessary to get the machine working spot on (mainly relay/ switch adjustments).